For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption ...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure. He is credited with the 'birth of modern music'. Wagner had a pretty established musical ...

"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent" — or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard ...

Christopher Eccleston goes head-to-head with the grim reaper's cavalry in Wagner's piece. Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a 19th Century musician and composer, and a very controversial figure.

director of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth. Wagner's descendants subsequently tried to style the composer as superhuman, an idea that lives on today. The museum's current exhibition ...